Installing Oracle SOA Suite 12.1.3

Oracle has announced latest Middleware Integration production from their Fusion Middleware Stack which is : Oracle SOA Suite 12.1.3

I was curious to install and try to do some hands on on this latest product.

I wanted to share the same on this blog:

First thing we need to know is that there is a separate installer available for development and POC environments and there is a separate installer distribution for Enterprise Environments like Production and UAT.

The Development distribution can be downloaded freely from below link :

For installing the development distribution of Oracle SOA suite 12.1.3 , only JDK and SOA installer is required.

SOA installer can be downloaded from the above provided link.

Any JDK version higher than JDK 1.7 update 55 will work.

If installing on Linux box ,make sure that GUI is enabled.

For the demonstration purpose, I have used the generic Installer.

The generic installer can be used on all the platforms.

I am using the Oracle Linux 5.6 64 bit version.

Downloading the software will provide the file : fmw_12.1.3.0.0_soaqs_Disk1_1of1.zip

Unzip the file : unzipfmw_12.1.3.0.0_soaqs_Disk1_1of1.zip

After unzipping below two files will be extracted.

fmw_12.1.3.0.0_soa_quickstart2.jar fmw_12.1.3.0.0_soa_quickstart.jar

For this POC purpose, I have installed JDK 1.7 update 71 on Linux .

JAVA HOME Location for my install is : /sandeep/app/jdk1.7_71

Now, before starting the installer, we need to determine whether this is first Oracle Fusion Product being installed on this machine or any other product has already been installed. This is required as Oracle Universal Installer always looks for OraInventory Location to store the installed components details.

If the OraInventory location is already present, then current installer will be updating the existing OraInventory directory.

Here I will be using a custom location for OraInventory. For providing custom location for OraInventory, we need to create a file : oraInst.loc with below content :

inventory_loc=sandeep/app/fmw1213/oraInventory
inst_group=appsoa

inventory_loc : this is oraInvetory location

inst_group : this is the operating system group which will be installing the oracle soa 12.1.3

once this file is created we can start the installer with below command :